On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 04:03:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:56:39 -0400 Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:34:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 09:19:49 +0200 Michal Hocko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I agree with Johannes who originally suggested to expose mem_cgroup that
> > > > it will allow for a better code later.
> > > 
> > > Sure, but how *much* better?  Are there a significant number of
> > > fastpath functions involved?
> > > 
> > > From a maintainability/readability point of view, this is quite a bad
> > > patch.  It exposes a *lot* of stuff to the whole world.  We need to get
> > > a pretty good runtime benefit from doing this to ourselves.  I don't
> > > think that saving 376 bytes on a fatconfig build is sufficient
> > > justification?
> > 
> > It's not a performance issue for me.  Some stuff is hard to read when
> > you have memcg functions with klunky names interrupting the code flow
> > to do something trivial to a struct mem_cgroup member, like
> > mem_cgroup_lruvec_online() and mem_cgroup_get_lru_size().
> > 
> > Maybe we can keep thresholds private and encapsulate the softlimit
> > tree stuff in mem_cgroup_per_zone into something private as well, as
> > this is not used - and unlikely to be used - outside of memcg proper.
> > 
> > But otherwise, I think struct mem_cgroup should have mm-scope.
> 
> Meaning a new mm/memcontrol.h?  That's a bit better I suppose.

I meant as opposed to being private to memcontrol.c.  I'm not sure I
quite see the problem of having these definitions in include/linux, as
long as we keep the stuff that is genuinely only used in memcontrol.c
private to that file.  But mm/memcontrol.h would probably work too.
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